Building Information Modelling (BIM) is rapidly gaining acceptance of building industries internationally, and is likely to become the primary industry standard for AEC information exchange in near future. The built-in ...

Over the past eras, growths of innovative technological concepts are promptly increasing, in order to achieve competitive productivity and performance. Building industry identifies technology as vital. Although the building ...

In managing energy in buildings, a greater focus has been given to the HVAC system as it generally consumes more than 50% of total energy usage in buildings. Proper maintenance had been identified as ...

A sustainable procurement system should be capable of delivering a project free of disputes in its ideal perspective. However, disputes seem to be inevitable in construction projects resulting from its complex nature and ...

Themost important element of the central air conditioning system, the chiller, accounts for about 40010 of annual total energy consumption of commercial and industrial buildings. As a result, many approacheshave been ...

The procurement by partial or full outsourcing of Facilities Management services is one of the options available for operation and maintenance of buildings. Since the recent past, this has been observed as a popular trend ...

The shift from traditional procurement systems, towards more collaborative procurement systems which are backed-up with information and communication technology (ICT), is becoming the new trend in the present day construction ...

supply chains, thereby improving both efficiencies and value creation. However, in widely practiced traditional procurement modes. transactional forces are still complex and short-sighted, resulting in weak collaborative ...

The shift from traditional procurement systems, towards more collaborative procurement systems which are backed-up with information and communication technology (ICT), is becoming the new trend in the present day construction ...

Sentiment analysis, the automated extraction of expressions of positive or negative attitudes from text has received considerable attention from researchers during the past decade. In addition, the popularity of internet ...